Capitalization Strategies

Capital letters are used in a variety of ways to make certain words stand out. Capital letters are used for:

• the first word of a sentence
  • The dog ran after the fox.
• names of
  • people: Sarah Smith
  • organizations: the Red Cross
  • historical events: World War II

• names of geographic locations (cities, states, and countries)
  • Avon; Connecticut; America
• titles of books
  • The Outsiders
• abbreviations
  • FBI
• names of subjects
  • Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies

Practice capitalizing using the following capitalization game